COMMUNISTS: Defense First

Although European economic integration
was stalled, the West had moved forward on a more immediately important
frontEurope's military defense. Last week the Communists were
shifting position in an effort to counter this Western gain.

In the first years after World War II, Moscow strategists assumed that
the Red Army could roll almost unopposed to the Atlantic if they
decided to take the great chance on World War III. But it might be more
prudent to capture Western Europe through the ballot box. Accordingly,
Western European Communist Parties concentrated on political drives to...